A source of life and conflict ethiopia egypt and sudan the tussle over the funding of africas biggest hydroelectric dam on the blue nile can they find a way to bridge their differences this is us from. Hello and welcome to the program on iran cause for thousands of years the nile has been the backbone of civilizations and a source of conflict the latest dispute is over the largest hydroelectric dam in africa being built anything. The government says its 4000000000. 00 project on the blue nile near its northern border with sudan will provide power to its more than 100000000. 00 citizens and create huge opportunities for the economy if europe it wants to start filling the dam in july when its rainy season begins but sudan and egypt downstream 1st want a legally binding agreement on how long it will take to fill the dam and how it will be operated the African Union is mediating if europe his government said on saturday the parties could finalized agreement within 2 to 3 weeks so lets take
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haze and humidity, the forecast the next couple days, talking triple digits, very quiet conditions showers and thunderstorms bubbled up yesterday daytime heat and we are waking up with that haze it is clear skies just so much walter in the atmosphere water in the atmosphere we have haze. 77 regan national not cool for 7:00 a.m., here is your forecast today more of the same hazy, hot, humid might be an isolated storm late today high temperature 94, 95 degrees again, even more heat tomorrow details coming up for you in just a couple minutes. all right steve and sarah, back to you at the desk. new this morning a police officer seriously hurt during an accident. the investigation is expected to have an impact on the morning commute happening near washington boulevard, north glieb road arlington. good morning stacy. good morning sarah. it is having an impact on morning rush hours this intersection is shut down it is a very busy thorough way. if you look behind me thoug
picture taken when he w 8 years old. thomas is a friend. a sad thing. it doesn t make a sense. doesn t make a lot of sense at all. his smile. hhad a very impressionable smile. reporter: police looking for two spects. young men possibly teenagers themselves. back to you. such a disturbing story. pat coins, you this. it happened again. police investigating another deadly hit and run in prince george s county. thi one off indian hd highway on a darkand dangerous stretch of road. in ft. washington melissa has th latest. reporter: the woman was re walking south when she was struck. as of right no, we don t he a lot of information on the victims will. reporter: police stay victim ma have been lying on the side of the road foreveral hours. news4 spo with a man who believed he saw h walking around 11: last night butit wasn t until 7:30 this morning that a motost spotted her and called 911. ve had sevel of these cases. a lot of times, iis a lot easier to render aid.